Global Business Network

The Global Business Network is a network created in 1987 that describes itself as "a worldwide learning community of organizations and individuals—a network, connected by the open and generous exchange of ideas, 'out-of-the-box' scenario thinking, ruthless curiosity, and exciting new information technologies."

The five founders of GBN were:
 * Peter Schwartz
 * Jay Ogilvy
 * Napier Collyns
 * Stewart Brand
 * Lawrence Wilkinson

"Also instrumental in GBN's creation were several key colleagues in Europe: Kees van der Heijden and Arie de Geus, both former heads of Group Planning at Shell; and Bo Ekman, a consultant and former Volvo executive. Since 1999, GBN has been led by CEO Eamonn Kelly. Eamonn is the author of Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World and co-author of What's Next: Exploring the New Terrain for Business. Before joining GBN, Eamonn was head of strategy for Scottish Enterprise, one of the world's foremost economic development organizations. Working closely with Eamonn are the co-heads of GBN's consulting practice, Andrew Blau and Chris Ertel.

"In December 2000, GBN became a member of the Monitor Group."

It is associated with the International Futures Forum and is linked to from the web page of the Scottish Parliament's Futures Forum

Network Members (2010)
Accessed November 2010:


 * Laurie Anderson, Brian Arthur, John Perry Barlow, Steve Barnett, Mary Catherine Bateson, Frank Beal, Crawford Beveridge, Susan Blumenthal, Raimondo Boggia, Albert Bressand, Larry Brilliant, John Brockman, Barbara Bylenga, Peter Calthorpe, William Calvin, Rob Carlson, Doug Carlston, Denise Caruso, Joseph Chamie, Eric Clemons, Sandy Close, Chip Conley, Ged Davis, June Delano, Leslie Dighton, K. Eric Drexler, Gwynne Dyer, Esther Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Bo Ekman, Douglas Engelbart, Brian Eno, Betty Sue Flowers, Francis Fukuyama, Bob Fuller, Peter Gabriel, John Gage, Lisa Gansky, Joel Garreau, Arie de Geus, William Gibson, Peter Gleick, Brenda Gourley, Saul Griffith, David Hale, Gary Hamel, Charles Hampden-Turner, David Harris, Gerald Harris, Paul Hawken, Barbara Heinzen, J.C. Herz, Daniel Hillis, James Hillman, John Holdren, Robert Hormats, Robert Horn, Charles House, Joel Hyatt, Mimi Ito, Joe Jaworski, Kathryn Johnson, Shaun Jones, William Joy, Adam Kahane, John Kao, Kevin Kelly, Irene King, Art Kleiner, Mia de Kuijper, Kaiser Kuo, George Lakoff, Jaron Lanier, Lawrence Lasker, Jaap Leemhuis, Graham Leicester, David Liddle, Amory Lovins, Chris Luebkeman, Michael Maccoby, Kishore Mahbubani, Mark Malloch-Brown, Thomas Malone, Lynn Margulis, Pamela McCorduck, Irving Mintzer, Ian Mitroff, Michael Murphy, Edward Newland, Maureen O'Hara, Jay Ogilvy, Pierre Omidyar, Walter Parkes, John Petersen, Michael Pillsbury, Michael Porter, Rafael Ramírez, Nancy Ramsey, Isha Ray, Howard Rheingold, Chris Riley, Richard Rodriguez, Heather Ross, Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Paul Saffo, Brian Sager, Jonathan Sallet, AnnaLee Saxenian, Ed Schein, Orville Schell, Lee Schipper, Michael Schrage, Russell Schweickart, Clay Shirky, David Sibbet, Alexander Singer, Gary Snyder, Angela Stent, Karen Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Nan Stone, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hardin Tibbs, Joseph Traub, Fons Trompenaars, Sherry Turkle, Laura Tyson, Kees van der Heijden, Herman van Gunsteren, Vernor Vinge, Heinrich Vogel, Alain de Vulpian, Mathis Wackernagel, Peter Warshall, Steven Weber, Carl Weinberg, Anders Wijkman, Lawrence Wilkinson, Angela Wilkinson, Alain Wouters, Daniel Yergin, Michael Zielenziger, Andrew Zolli

Membership
GBB has over 190 corporate members including companies from oil and gas industry, chemicals and biotechnology, food, mining, pharmaceuticals, banking, publishing, nuclear energy and technology sectors. 

In an August 2007 action alert, the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting noted that nuclear power booster Stewart Brand has financial ties to the nuclear industry, through the Global Business Network (GBN):
 * GBN numbers, among the 192 clients named on its website, more than a dozen corporations and governmental agencies involved in the production or promotion of nuclear energy: General Electric, Bechtel, Duke Power, Siemens-Westinghouse, Fluor, Electric Power Research Institute, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Électricité de France, Iberdrola, Vattenfall, Sydkraft (now E.ON Sweden) and Sandia National Labratories. Some of these, including GE, Bechtel, Duke Power and Westinghouse, are receiving government subsidies to develop the next generation of nuclear power plants.


 * John Perry Barlow
 * Mary Catherine Bateson
 * Stewart Brand
 * Douglas Coupland
 * K. Eric Drexler
 * Esther Dyson
 * Freeman Dyson
 * Brian Eno
 * Francis Fukuyama
 * Peter Gabriel
 * William Gibson
 * Paul Hawken
 * Danny Hillis
 * James Hillman
 * William Joy
 * Kevin Kelly
 * Jaron Lanier
 * Lawrence Lasker
 * Peter Leyden
 * Amory Lovins
 * Michael Murphy
 * Nancy Ramsey
 * Paul Saffo
 * Brian Sager
 * Russell (Rusty) Schweickart
 * Alexander Singer
 * Bruce Sterling
 * Sherry Turkle
 * Peter Warshall

GBN is based in Emeryville, California, though a move to San Francisco is planned for May 2006.

Website of GBN

 * http://www.gbn.org/

SourceWatch Resources

 * Peter Leyden

Funding
The GBN is funded by almost 200 large corporations including :
 * ABB
 * Advanced Micro Devices
 * Advanta
 * Aetna
 * AlliedSignal ( Honeywell )
 * Allstate
 * Alticor
 * Altria
 * Amerada Hess
 * American Century Investments
 * American Express
 * American Funds Distributors
 * AMP
 * Andersen Consulting ( Accenture )
 * Apple Computer
 * ARCO
 * ARCO Chemical ( Lyondell )
 * Arthur D. Little
 * AT&T
 * ATCO
 * Austrade
 * Autodesk
 * Avery Dennison
 * Bancomer
 * Bechtel
 * Bell Canada
 * Bell Northern Research ( Nortel )
 * BellSouth
 * BHP
 * Bilbao Metropoli
 * Boeing/Rocketdyne
 * Booz-Allen & Hamilton
 * BP Amoco
 * British Telecommunications
 * Brown Forman
 * BUPA
 * California Energy Commission
 * Campbell Soup
 * Canadian Pacific Limited
 * Cargill
 * Cemex
 * CGU
 * ChevronTexaco
 * CitiGroup
 * Clorox
 * CMEoKHBB
 * Coca-Cola Company
 * CRSS
 * CSIR
 * CSIRO
 * Cultor ( Danisco )
 * Daimler Benz ( DaimlerChrysler )
 * De La Salle Institute
 * Department of Trade and Industry ( Department of Health )
 * DeTeMobil Deutsche Telekom
 * Deutsche Bank
 * Dow Chemical
 * Dow Corning
 * Duke Power
 * DuPont
 * E2 NetAnalytics
 * Eastman Chemical
 * Eastman Kodak
 * EDS
 * Electric Power Research Institute
 * Electricite de France
 * Electrolux Zanussi
 * Eli Lilly
 * Embratel
 * Ericsson
 * Ernst & Young
 * Eskom
 * ExxonMobil
 * Fannie Mae
 * Federal Express
 * Fiat
 * First Union ( Wachovia )
 * Fletcher Asset Management
 * Fluor Corporation
 * Ford Motor Company
 * Freddie Mac
 * General Electric
 * General Mills
 * General Motors
 * Glaxo Wellcome ( GlaxoSmithKline )
 * Government of Singapore
 * The Hamilton Securities Group
 * Heineken
 * Herman Miller
 * Hermes Corporativo
 * Hewlett-Packard Company
 * Homestake Mining ( Barrick Gold )
 * Iberdrola
 * IBM
 * ICL
 * Information Access Company
 * Inland Steel (Ispat Steel)
 * Innovation Associates
 * Institute for Creative Technologies
 * Intel
 * ISCOR Steel
 * JCI
 * John Wiley & Sons
 * Kellogg Company
 * Kerr McGee
 * Kooperativa Forbundet
 * L&
 * Landmark Communications
 * Laredo National Bank
 * Leo Burnett
 * Linuxcare
 * London Stock Exchange
 * The Lowe Group
 * Lucent Technologies
 * Mattel
 * MDS
 * Metropolitan Life
 * Microsoft
 * Midland Walwyn Capital Inc.
 * Monsanto
 * MTN
 * Nakamae International Economic Research
 * National Education Association
 * National Westminster Bank
 * The Nature Conservancy
 * Nissan
 * Nokia
 * Not A Number
 * OgilvyOne
 * OK Petroleum
 * Old Mutual
 * Outsights
 * Pacific Bell ( SBC )
 * Pacific Gas & Electric
 * PanCanadian ( Encana )
 * People&
 * Perot Systems
 * Petrobras
 * Petroleos de Venezuela
 * Philips
 * Phoenix Newspapers ( Gannett )
 * Piaggio Veicoli Europei
 * Pioneer Hi-Bred International
 * Pitney Bowes
 * Port of Rotterdam
 * Principal Financial Group
 * Procordia AB
 * Procter & Gamble
 * Reuters
 * Royal Pakhoed ( Royal Vopak )
 * Rubbermaid
 * Saatchi & Saatchi
 * San Tomo Group
 * Sandia National Laboratories
 * Saudi Aramco
 * Scottish Enterprise
 * Sears
 * SENCO Products
 * Shell Canada
 * Shell International
 * Shell Oil
 * Siemens Westinghouse Power
 * Singapore Airlines
 * South African Breweries
 * Southern California Edison
 * Standard Chartered Bank
 * State Compensation Insurance Fund
 * STATOIL
 * Stoel Rives LLP
 * StoraEnso
 * Sun Microsystems
 * Swedbank
 * Sydkraft
 * TBWA Worldwide
 * Telia
 * Texaco ( ChevronTexaco )
 * Toyota
 * TransCanada Pipelines
 * Trygg Hansa
 * TXU
 * Unilever
 * United Distillers
 * United Parcel Service
 * Unocal
 * Vattenfall
 * Visa
 * Visteon
 * Volvo ( Ford )
 * Wieden & Kennedy
 * Xerox
 * Zurich Financial Services

Contact details
Global Business Network 101 Market Street Suite 1000 San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: 415-932-5400 Fax: 415-932-5401 Web: http://www.gbn.com

Related Sourcewatch

 * Bechtel
 * Duke Power
 * General Electric
 * Siemens
 * Stewart Brand